Thanks Neilgl,
I went to bed soon after that post and wasn't expecting a quick reply. In the few minutes before I did I remembered I had installed rpi-imager on my wife's linux laptop so I used that. Sadly even though it was version 1.72 it did exactly the same thing. So I have used gparted to completely reset the sd card to fat32 and tried again with the same result. Now what I have done is hacked the passwd and shadow files with a name, and password salt I knew as well as renaming the user to that name rather than pi. I have also created the blank ssh file.
Progress because now I can ssh onto it and login. However it complains about not having set the country and when I tried to run raspi-config It says the user is not in the sudoers group. So I guess I will hack that just out of curiosity. I will now purge the rpi-imager on my PC and try compiling the 2.03 version of rpi-imager although that was where I had the problem with the original. I am running Mint 21.3 on the laptop with kernel 6.8.0-90-generic.
I went to bed soon after that post and wasn't expecting a quick reply. In the few minutes before I did I remembered I had installed rpi-imager on my wife's linux laptop so I used that. Sadly even though it was version 1.72 it did exactly the same thing. So I have used gparted to completely reset the sd card to fat32 and tried again with the same result. Now what I have done is hacked the passwd and shadow files with a name, and password salt I knew as well as renaming the user to that name rather than pi. I have also created the blank ssh file.
Progress because now I can ssh onto it and login. However it complains about not having set the country and when I tried to run raspi-config It says the user is not in the sudoers group. So I guess I will hack that just out of curiosity. I will now purge the rpi-imager on my PC and try compiling the 2.03 version of rpi-imager although that was where I had the problem with the original. I am running Mint 21.3 on the laptop with kernel 6.8.0-90-generic.
Statistics: Posted by buteman — Wed Dec 24, 2025 9:34 am